European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday october 10, 1967 Johnson reported  Hackling his generals Washington up two senators who have criticized president Johnson for restrain ing his generals in Vietnam said sunday he was now yielding to pressure for a Sharp acceleration of the War . John j. Stennis d-miss., chairman of the Senate preparedness subcommittee said the president and defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara had gotten together with the join chiefs of staff and there were no longer any serious differences Between them Over Vietnam bombing policy. Senate democratic whip rus sell Long la., said Johnson was doing More and More of the Strong effective things Neces sary to win the War an predicted Johnson would let his military chiefs unleash a no holds barred War. Stennis in a broadcast inter View said Mcnamara doubt less has changed his mind about restricting the bombing of North Vietnam since the preparedness subcommittee re ported last month that the administration was shackling the military with artificial  said the United states in the last 36 Days had bombed More significant targets in the North than it had in the previous year. The major target left untouched he said was the port of Haiphong. Stennis said Johnson should let his uni formed professionals decide How it should be Cut off As source of arms and supplies to the enemy in South , in a program broadcast Over Louisiana stations predicted Johnson eventually would get around to doing pretty much what his military advisers Are urging and  would like to close that port of Haiphong to supplies that Are coming in there he said. That s where most of the communist equipment coming into Vietnam is coming through. Need pay Only $5 a Day civilians get break on Hospital Cost Washington is changes in the . Army non appropriated fund group insurance plan have increased Bene fits including a boost from $30to $40 a Day for stays in hospitals  hospitals currently charge $45 a  announcing the new Bene fits maj. Gen. Kenneth g. Wick Ham the adjutant general also revealed that the allowance for stateside Hospital care jumps from $15 to $20 a Day and that maximum benefits in the surgical schedule go from $420 to $480.the Naf plan was established Jan. 1, 1966, by the department of the army to provide hospitalization life insurance and retirement benefits to eligible army employees of non appropriated funds other than those employed by the army and air Force Exchange service cafes and army and air Force motion picture service a amps. The ii2w benefits Are being provided at no extra Cost to either the employee or the Naf  july 31 of this year the department of the army announced an open enrolment period during aug. 1-sept. 30 Forda no appropriated fund employees who had not previously enrolled when the program be came effective Jan. 1, 1966. Wickham also announced that this open enrolment Date has now been extended to include october 1967. Any eligible dependents not insured on sept. 1, 1967 who apply for coverage during the open enrolment period May be insured without evidence of insurability provided he or his dependents have not been refused coverage previously on the basis of an overdue application. An uninsured employee who applied for himself or eligible dependent during september 1967 will be insured effective nov. 1, 1967. For those who enrol during october 1967, their coverage win begin dec. 1, 1967. The group health and life plan is considered As one package plan and employees who apply must enrol in both plans. There have been no changes made in the mandatory retirement plan at this time. An employee Booklet revised aug. 1, 1967, describing in de Tail the new benefits under the health and life plan will be distributed to All eligible army non appropriated fund employees. The continued Success of the program is dependent upon employee participation. Biographer Maurois Dies at 82 Paris a famed French writer and intellectual Andre Maurois 82, died  underwent surgery sept. 26 at a Hospital in the related Story on Page 4. Paris suburb of Neuilly. The operation was for an intestinal  was taken from the Hospital monday morning an died at his Home nearby. He was married twice to Jeanne Marie Wanda de Szymkiewicz who died and to Simone de Caillavet. They had three children Michael Gerald and Olivier. Calif. Police Hunt 3 killer rapists Santa Rosa Calif. A police Are sorting out meager clues in a Hunt for three killer rapists who shot to death the son of a . Government official and repeatedly assaulted his  by three bullets in the Back Early saturday on a Hill Side lovers Lane was Charles Louis Kaufmann jr., 19, a fresh Man at Santa Rosa Junior col lege who arrived Only three months ago. He was the son of Charles , an officer of the . Agency for International development Aid now stationed in  was on the College Reuther turns Down 80-cents-an-hour raise Detroit up Walte Reuther the United Auto work ers Union president said sunday his Union will not Settle its con tract demands with the Auto Industry for 80 cents an hour More in wage and fringe benefits overthrew years. Such a settlement would Cost the big three Auto companies More than $1 billion a year after the third year but Reuther said it was not enough. He re fused however to set an acceptable figure. Assessment voted Reuther made his remarks in a news conference following a special Law convention which voted a $20-million-a-Mpnth due assessment on 1.1 million work ing Union members to help finance the Ford strike and main Tain the strike fund in anticipation of possible walkouts at Gen eral motors and Chrysler when it becomes their turn to Settle. Pm and Chrysler have c o a tinted operations. The 2,400 delegates approve the emergency dues increase to replenish the Union s strike fund now being drained of $5.2 million a week to support 160,000 a members on strike at Ford motor co. Plants across the country. Football team. While in Spain with his family he was a wrest Ler at Torrejon air base  said Young Kaufmann first met his 18-year-old compan Ion Friday night at a party. Her name was withheld. Santa Rosa police chief Melvin f. Flohr said the girl was separated fro her husband and was childless. He said the two drove to secluded area near the Center of this Northern California Cit of 46,000, and had been parked for a Little Over an  girl later told authorities a car drove up behind their Sand stopped. Two men approached the car one from each Side and one of them brandish ing a pistol ordered the couple from the car. Before they could move she said one of the men pulled her sweater Over her head dragged her from the car and forced her into the rear seat of their own car. She said she then heard scuffling apparently Kaufman struggling with the hoodlums. The girl said the three assailants then drove to a second secluded spot about eight Miles away. She said the car was parked in a Culvert just off the Road. She said she was dragged about30 feet up the Hill and raped six times. Ecuador orders on i . Envoy Washington up the United states sunday recalled its ambassador from Ecuador atthe demand of the government in Quito which accused him of open criticism of president Otto Arosemena Gomez in a  state department Sai Wimberley co err the Ambas Sador will leave Ecuador on monday in compliance with the order to depart within 48  demand was contained in a note delivered to the state department Satur Day by Ecuador s ambassador to Washington. Coerr s offending speech delivered Friday at a school in Guayaquil was a Strong defens of the Alliance for Progress and a spirited response to its  in the 15-Page text was Arosemena Gomez referred Toby name. Turkey on the lain Mcarthur Ohio up alive Turkey was found in a Tele phone Booth 10 Miles from the Ralston Purina Turkey processing Plant. Death Calls hoax 8 Denver families Denver Colo. A series of vicious Telephone Calls Friday caused eight grief stricken families to go to the emergency room of Denver Gen eral Hospital after an Anonymous caller had told them members of their family had been killed in Auto  police say investigation into the cruel hoax is continuing. Detective Glenn Snyder termed the prank Calls the crudest and most elaborate hoax he has investigated in 18 years on the police  said relatives started arriving at the Hospital about 6p.m. Friday after a caller who said he was it. Lloyd Case of the Denver police department telephoned them at Home to re port a member of. Their family had been killed in an Auto Acci Dent. One of the hoax victims woman who was eight months pregnant was told her three Small children had been critically injured and her husband killed. The woman was treated for Shock and was placed i care of her private doctor after her husband and children were found Safe nearly three hours after the  said the Hospital s emergency room was quickly filled with crying hysterical relatives and it was difficult for emergency cases to get through. They would like to use the postmodern weapons and they d like the Opportunity to fight this thing with no holds barred and More and More you la see unmoving in that direction until this thing s  later what modern weapons were not now being used in  said he would not exclude nuclear weapons. He said some . Military leaders would like Mohave the Freedom to use tactical nuclear weapons if advisable. . Jets raid Airfield once out of Bounds Saigon a a North Viet namese Airfield near Haiphong heretofore on the Pentagon s Liston restricted targets was at tacked sunday for the first Timin the War by . Carrier-based1 Navy pilots. At the same time air Force pilots ranged to within 15 Miles of the communist chinese Norderto Knock out a key Highway Bridge the . Command re ported. Anticipating renewed attack from North Vietnam the . Come has dispatched an army brigade into the invasion prone Northern sector of South Viet Nam boosting american Man Power thei a to around 100,000troops, it was disclosed monday. At the same time . Intelligence reports showed a buildup of forces on the communist  reports put communist strength at 85,000 men in the Northern area and above the de militarized zone Doz. On the North South Border. Of these 46,000 men including 16,000 North vietnamese Are reported inside the five Northern prov inces called the i corps area. Another buildup has increase communist strength in and above the Doz from 35,000 men to39,000 the reports indicated. The raid on the heretofore Pentagon restricted cat by air Field Only four Miles Southeast of the major port City of Hai Phong came As heavy ground fighting was reported in coastal lowlands 350 Miles Northeast of Saigon. American paratroopers re ported killing 60 North Vietnam \ Ese troops some of them in hand to hand fighting after the enemy tried to Cut off and encircle . Platoon. Seventeen Para troopers were killed and four wounded. 2 maps charged ? with rape attempt to Eslingen Germany is two Frankfurt Mili tary policemen have been charged with trying to rape the 40-year-old wife of a . Civil Ian sept. 23, a seventh army sup port come spokesman said Mon Day. I charged with attempted rape and attempted sodomy under the Ujj uniform code of military jus Tice a e sgt. Kenneth w. Whit ten 23, and spec. 4 William c. Mosley 21 both of the 709thmp in. Officials Here said the two my were accused by the victim who identified them in a lineup of soldiers held four hours after the alleged Early morning  incident reportedly occurred on a country Road outside Frankfurt the army spokesman said